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Originally Posted by OM617YOTA
I used to do shade tree work. Not worth the trouble now.
Change someone's oil and six months down the line when their tail light bulb goes out or their power mirrors stop working, somehow it's your fault and you need to fix it for free.
No thank you.
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My Neighbor behind me went to the same Trade School as I did and also took Diesel Mechanics for various reasons he was always hustling for money and fixed peoples cars.
It was clever how he avoided one of the issues. He would tell people to take their Car to someplace like PepBoys or Sears and let them give an estimate as to what was wrong. And they would bring their Cars back and he would fix that. If the other places diagnosed wrong then he was not to blame and his Customers paid for the Parts at Autozone or some similar place so he was not out the parts money.
If people were insistent on my fixing their Cars I told them I was a Diesel Mechanic and they are different. That was normally enough for them to leave.